Meditate This:

PEACE........

Is the effect of a Still Mind.

Whether an individual, family, group, team, church, neighborhood, city, state, nation or world.

It is the same.

Out of my control

Sorry for lack of input throughout the summer months.

Blogger & Google seem to be having a difficult time getting along together.

Since they have joined forces, this blog has been rendered useless.

Bigger and better are not always better.

De Novo

Understand This:

The four most important and essential statements in the christian bible.

Created in the image and likeness of God.

God is Spirit.

In him we live and move and have our being.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he; It is done unto you as you believe.

Read This:

And read this and read this and read this until you fully understand and realise this is the way life works.

You are what you think:
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts." Thus said Buddha. And it therefore follows that if a person is happy, it is because they dwell in happy thoughts; if miserable, because they dwell in despondent and debilitating thoughts.
Whether one be fearful or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that soul lies the cause of its own state or states, and never without.
And now I hear a chours of voices exclaim, "But do you really mean to say that outward circumstances do not affect our minds?" I do not say that, but I say this, and know it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances can only affect you insofar as you allow them to do so..... Excerpt from; As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.

Untill you fully understand, realise think and act accordingly life will be as it has always been, no matter how many books you read, how many services you attend or how many counselors and seminars you go to. You will not be able to change your life for the better.

Learn This:

When you go through hell; MAKE IT PAY.

Make it pay with greater understanding than you previously had and the result of good from that experience will be lasting.

Don't regret past unhappy experiences, don't dwell in past unhappy experiences, don't replay past unhappy experiences; but LEARN from past unhappy experiences.

Practice This:

Live your Divine Nature.
Live your Divine Sonship.

Reconize the presence of God.
Personalize the presence of God.
Realize the presence of God.

Live in SonVision.
Live a Spirit Life.

Consider This:

Murder is on the rise. Sexual abuse, theft, rudeness, anger, physical attacks, hatred, war of all kinds in all places, political abuse, division of every type, and on and on and on.

The oft asked question, worn out sentiment and lament.
Can't we just all get along?

The answer: NO !!! Not until people make an individual decision to get along.

It is a choice to be made every minute of everyday. It involves personal sacrifice.

What choice will you make?

Understand This:

Realise the fact that selfishness is at the root of all error, sin and crime.

And that ignorance is the basis of all selfishness.

It is the ignorant man that seeks his own at the expense of others.


This is true whether it be an individual, family, organization or business.

The aspiration & goal of one man.

I looked around and upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but I could not find it; I looked in books, but I could not find it; I looked within, and found there both the cause and the self-made nature of that cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy.
I found one Law, the Law of Love; one life, the life of adjustment to that Law; one Truth, the Truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart.

And I dreamed of writing books which would help men and women, whether rich or poor, learned or unlearned, worldly or unworldly to find within themselves the source of all success, all happiness, all accomplishment, all Truth.

And the dream remained with me, and at last became substantial; and now I send forth these books into the world on a mission of healing and blessedness, knowing that they cannot fail to reach the homes and hearts of those who are waiting and ready to receive them.

James Allen

Consider This:

We cannot see by the light that lights another; yet we may get a spark that will set our lamp to burning, but that is all. There is in each soul an illumination....a radiance from the Inmost Soul, the Source.... that is infinite in love and wisdom.

When the consciousness of an individual is opened to this illumniation and he hears, this is revelation. Truth precieved destroys ignorance and frees our thoughts. Truth never destroys any portion of truth, for the fuller knowledge includes all the fragments that have been previously preceived.

Excerpt from the book: Divine Science It's principle and Practice. The text book of Divine Science.

Revolution

Join the Peace Revolution.
Be a Peace Revolutionist.

Think Peace
Talk Peace
Have Peace

There will not be peace on earth until each individual lives peacefully.

Begin the Peace Revolution where you live.

Peace begins with you as it begins with all people.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world......Gandhi

Enlightenment

There are alot of people seeking to be enlighten these days. They search here and there. They read book after book,attend seminars, search the internet, surf blog after blog and seek teacher after teacher attemping to learn how to become enlightened.

All these things can be helpful in providing information and experiences. But, they cannot teach you to be enlightened.

You already are an enlightened being. All that is necessary is to know that and reconize, personalize and realize enlightenment within yourself.

Spend more time alone with yourself. Quite time.

Realize you are a spiritual being. Made in the image and likeness of a spirit God.
Personalize your being as one with this same creative universal spirit.
Realize the spiritual life in the physical circumstances.

Seek and you will find. but, you are not looking for something you do not already possess, you are seeking to reveal what you already have.

No need to struggle and rush to reach enlightment, you will not graduate and then be an enlightened person.

See with SonVision, and live a spirit life, enjoy spirit life.

Consider This:

Live perpetually in the desire that you will receive the best that life can give today, that all things will work together for good to you now, and that everything necessary to the promotion of your highest welfare will come in abundance during the great eternal now.

Make this desire so strong that your heart and soul are in it with all the power of life, and let every present moment be deeply inspired by the very spirit of this desire.

The result will be that the best of everything will constantly be coming into your world, and everything that may be necessary to make your life full and complete now will be added in an ever increasing abundance.

Excerpt from the book; 'The Ideal Made Real' by Christian D. Larson (1912)

This is a book I highly recommend for people who, as I once was, are trying to figure out what the hell is wrong.

Answer This:

Do you really want a peaceful life.......

Or do you just want peace in the life you have now.......?

Consider This:

Recently while visiting Creating a Better Life blog, I read a very sincere & honest post about losing focus.

This lead me to consider the Spritual Principles concerning focus that are contained in the Christian Bible. The Bible is a book of Spritual Principles. These Divine Principles are presented in many ways, in many stories and many times. Some are spoken of directly some are hidden to be discerned.

Your focus should always be kept on the spiritual. It is in the spirit that things first take place, where problems are solved, material things are created.

The Spritual Principle here is: Spiritual first....material or physical follows.

Romans 12:2 Be not conformed to this world: But be ye transformed by the RENEWING of your MIND, (the reason) that ye may prove what is that GOOD, and ACCEPTABLE, and PERFECT, will of GOD. Spiritual first.....material follows.

Galatians 5:22 But the FRUIT of the SPIRIT is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against which there is no law. Spiritual first....material follows.

Psalm 1:2,3 But his delight is in the Law of the Lord; and in his Law does he meditate day and night.
AND he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that brings forth his fruit in his season; and his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper. Spiritual first....material follows

Joshua 1:7,8 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou may observe to do according to all thy law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, THAT thou may prosper in whatever thou does.
This book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night; THAT thou may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for THEN thou shall make thy way properous, and THEN thou shall have good success. Spiritual first....material follows.

And ofcourse you remember the story of Peter when he attempted to walk on the water. As long as he kept his eyes(focus) on Jesus(spiritual) he walked and did not sink. When he took his eyes(focus) off Jesus(spiritual) and looked at the storms effects(material) he began to sink in the water. When he put the Spiritual first he gained the material he wanted. When he reversed the Principle he lost the material.
Spiritual first....material follows.

There are many many more examples and stories that show this very important Spiritual Principle. The next time you spend some time with your Bible look for this Principle.

Divine Principles are for living life. They never fail. Keep your SonVision. Keep your focus on the Spiritual and the material will be manifested in your world.
This is the life that Jesus lived, he saw through Spirit in all circumstances at all times. He used his SonVision, he never lost his focus.

Let's Have Church ??

My friend Steve at Pine River Spirit blog (click on Divine Science Sunday service at bottom under announcements) is now offering a Sunday service for those that cannot attend a service or wish to worship privately.
This service is based on the writings of Rev. W.John Murray from the magazine The Gleaner, which was published between 1909-1925. There will be a service each Sunday with a new message from the Magazine.

The first service is this Sunday April 9, 2006. I have seen a preview of this first service. It is very thought provoking and has tremendous spiritual content. It is simply laid out and presented in a format that focuses on the content rather than the graphics.

I recommend this uplifting, encouraging service. After "attending" the service look around his website Northwoods Divine Science Resource Center, it has a ton of interesting and informative material.

Learn This:

The Great central fact of human life, in your life and in mine, is the coming into a conscious, vital realization of our oneness with this Spirit of Infinite Life (God), and the opening of ourselves fully to this divine flow.

Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers, is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.

excerpts from the 1897 book, In Tune with the Infinite. By Ralph Waldo Trine

Things To Ponder, Meditate, or Just Think About:

The truth about a thing, situation or circumstance can be misunderstood and believed to be something else by a person or group of people and still be the truth.

Religion: The Ultimate Misdirection Play !!

Consider This:

There is an old acornym used in teaching salesmanship:

KISS...Keep It Simple Stupid. This formula is to remind sales people to keep their sales presentation easy to understand. Not to go into deep explanations of their product in order not to confuse their prospect.
The operation and benefits of a product or service must be simple in order to be universal to all people of varing education, language and mental capabilities.

I would like you to consider this for a while and I will add more later.

KISS...Keep It Simple Spirit. I believe this is the method used by Divine Spirit to reveal Spiritual Principles and understanding. All the greatest spiritual teachers and enlighten souls have been people of simple ways and simple teaching.

What is the cause of frustration and aggravation in your life?

Look to yourself. Look within. Meditate on why a person, situation or circumstance is bothering you.

What is the real cause? It is not the person, situation or circumstance that is CAUSING you to lose your peace of mind. The cause is within yourself. You are in control of your thoughts and actions.

You cannot control or change others or their actions, but you can change your reaction to people & situations. Choose to see good at all times, choose peace at all times.

See through Spirit. Know that: Positive Things are Happening in Your Life Today. You are created in the Image and Likeness of God. This is why you are in control of yourself, this is why good things are yours.

At times of stress, frustration or adverse conditions: Reconize the presence of God within you. Personalize God as one with you. Realize the good of God for you. This is to be your thoughts.

As you do this, you will realize the change for you. This is using SonVision.
This is your way to Peace. This is your way to freedom in life.

Things To Ponder, Meditate, or Just Think About:

Deeds Are Seeds.

What kinds of deeds are you sowing?

What are your actions like? How do you treat people? How do you preform your job. How do you react to other peoples actions and words? Do you do the honest or correct thing regardless of the consequences? How do you spend your idle time?

Deeds are Seeds : And you will reap a harvest in due season.

What kind of harvest will you reap?

Will it be abundant or meager? Will it be good fruit or weeds? Will you recieve good will and love from others or will you recieve ill will and hatered ?

The choice is yours.

New Years Resolutions:

How do New Years Resloutions fit in with SonVision?

The past year is over; you have learned from it and your errors and mistakes. What you have failed to learn, you will have a opportunity to learn again. It is over stop looking back. Look now to the New Year with SonVision.

Positive Things Are Happening In Your Life Today!!

My friend Steve At Pine River Spirit Blog has Posted an excerpt from a January 1927 New Years sermon, The Law of Proper Beginnings, by Rev. W. John Murry that is very appropriate for considering the New Year. It can be read here during the month of Janurary 2006.

Thank You:

I want to thank the people who have read and participated in my blog in 2005.

I have enjoyed your comments and also the personal email & communication from those who agree and disagree.

It has been a honor and priviliage to answer personal questions and offer guidance. I am very happy with the success of this sharing.

I look forward to the new year and more opportunities of participating in the lives of people who are looking for a better way of life.

I invite each person in the world to join me in SonVision.

Positive Things Are Happening In Your Life today!!

Because you are created in the image and likeness of God and have been given the power to be in harmony with Divine Laws & principles.

Peace in the new year.

Consider This:

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men......Luke 2:14

Consider this in context of the law of cause & effect. Like attracts like, you reap what you sow, it is done unto you as you believe, draw closer to God and he will draw closer to you.

Just a few statements from the christian bible to think about on an individual bases that can and will, if unreservedly practiced by each person at all times, bring peace and harmony to your life and the lives of the people that come in contact with you.

The praise of God has and is being done in all religions and in every area of the world. It is the peace and good will towards men that has not been practiced on a regular bases. And the world, begining with individuals, families, neighbors, comunities, cities, states, countries are seeing and feeling the effects of the lack of peace and good will towards men.Even the atmosphere and physical world of the planet is being rocked by the increased ill will towards men.

When the people of the world change their thoughts to peace and good will towards men, then the world of the people will change for them to recieving peace and good will from others.

The Divine Law never fails.

What to Think:

Finally, brethern, Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, Whatsoever things are pure, Whatsoever things are loverly, Whatsoever things are of a good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.....Philippians 4:8

Is this just a nice little verse for christians? Is this just to say that it is what christians should think and have nice thoughts? Or is there more to this statement?

The human mind can only entertain one thought at a time. It may seem that you have a thousand things on your mind at times, but the truth is that your mind has one thought going throught it at a time and it is working at high speed and jumping from thought to thought.

Your thoughts will eventually manifest themselves into your physical surroundings. You are now in the circumstances and situations that have been foremost in your thoughts whether you are conscious of these thoughts or conscious of how many times you think these thoughts.
By changing your thoughts and attitude towards people and situations, you can change the direction and relationships in your life. When you bring yourself into harmony with good, good will manifest in your life. This is cause and effect. Your thoughts are the cause, your situations and circumstances are the effect.

When negitive thoughts come to mind, do not fight them, Just think of something positive.....Emmet Fox.

So, we can see that there is a practical principle involved with this verse. What is it you want your life to be like? Think on the good & positive things of life and reject the negitive thoughts as soon as they enter your conscious thoughts.

If you are now in such circumstances that you think you can't find anything good to think about, begin where you are now and replace any and all bad & negitive thoughts with this one thought: Positive Things are Happening in My Life Today!
Experiment with this and you will prove to yourself that this principle will begin to bring positive things into your life. This is how I proved it to myself with situations in my own life. It will give you a starting point to change yourself and your outlook on the things of life as it changes the situations surrounding your life.

You have been given this creative power......Use It!
And let this Divine Priniciple work for you.

Keep this thought foremost in your thoughts....Positive Things are Happening In My Life Today!!

Let me know the results you have seen in your life and thoughts from this experiment.

Consider This:

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.....Robert Heinlein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocure minds.....Albert Einstein

therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute......Jesus

Peace in the World ?

There will not be peace in the world until the people of the world want peace !

There can not be peace in the world until people pursue peace with their spouses, children, family members, neighbors, co-workers, church members, people of a different color, or schools, or cities, or states, or religions, competitors, elected officials whether you voted for them or not.

Set aside differences for the sake of peace.

Pursue peace with all people. There will be no world peace until people the world over pursue peace; beginning with themselves.

The ability for world peace is within all people.

Things to Ponder, Meditate or Just Think About:

Must a person be religious to be spiritual?

Was a physical religious organized church ever meant to be?

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.......That principle is: Contempt prior to investigation........Herbert Spencer

Consider This:

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart; the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you will but remain true to them your world will at last be built...............James Allen